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woodpecker

Beautiful start to my day.  Sitting with my coffee watching a colourful woodpecker enjoying the nuts on the bird feeder.  All's right with the world.

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2705d17 Comments

Barbara from Barbara yes having a coffee as well and a Jay sat on the top of bird stand. Seen it a few times in the last few days

Barbara Stevens ● 2705d

I'm sitting watching the bloody slugs attacking my hostas...again! And they're now turning their attention to the petunias. Used to sprinkle salt on the buggers but read it was a cruel way to dispatch. Copper tape hasn't worked and they seem to enjoy the slug pellets.And it's starting to rain. Flaming June!

Simon Knight ● 2705d

Simon might sound stupid but fairy liquid helps if you wipe it around the pot. If on the garden not a clue I have loads as well.

Barbara Stevens ● 2705d

Fairy it is then...I'll try anything...I'm desperate...I'm not sleeping and have lost my appetite :)

Simon Knight ● 2705d

At least you haven't had to water the plants with all the rain . I get the slugs in my fish pond, yuk.

Barbara Stevens ● 2705d

Actually I do water the hanging baskets as they're under the eaves so don't get much rain water. A fish pond? Flash!We have a bird bath that the local pigeon likes to crap in...don't know why we bother!

Simon Knight ● 2705d

Slugs and snails outnumber us too. And ants keep sneaking into the house. But we now have a wren nesting in the garden. What a song it sings!We had all four tits in our garden this morning: great, blue, coal and longtailed tits. They all ignore each other.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2705d

Two years ago we had only 5 fish nothing fancy, had pond about 20yrs. 2 years ago one of the fish gave birth ended up with forty baby gold fish all survived. now their getting to about 3 1/2 inches, gave 5 to a neighbour. If they get much bigger will giving more away no good for tank, as used to being in garden pond.

Barbara Stevens ● 2705d

Are slugs just homeless snails? Do they stand outside Sainsbury trying to flog Big Issue?4am (I'm not a sleeper) and in the garden we get loads of small bats...Pipistrels? You almost have to duck they fly so close.Alas we have too many resident cats making our garden a no-go area to the wrens and tits of this world.

Simon Knight ● 2705d

Have a couple of hedgehogs.  They love the slugs. Must admit though, when I put washing out early in the morning, they are really yucky to tread on!

Barbara Shillabeer ● 2705d

Simon,Have you tried crushed eggshells to keep slugs and snails away from the hostas?  Sharp-edged stones are around them are also helpful provided the leaves do not touch the ground.

Ivonne Holliday ● 2705d

Nemaslug. Works 100%.

Peter Miles ● 2705d

Thanks all. I'm going down the Fairy liquid route at the moment.

Simon Knight ● 2704d

Beer. They love it. In a jam jar or shallow container and they drink themselves to death.

Sue Hammond ● 2704d

It fell down our chimney this morning. I don’t know who was more shocked!  I eventually coaxed it out of an open window not before it tried to leave via a mirror.  It was clearly in a panic, poor thing, and perhaps as a result it left a small deposit on our duvet cover.

Jonathan Callaway ● 2703d

Aaw poor thing must have been so scared. Glad it was unharmed and you helped it go on its way. xx

Sue Hammond ● 2703d

I love beer as well, any slug gets a taste for my beer and it'll be straight back to cruel salt treatment :)

Simon Knight ● 2703d